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Hough, George Washington – House, Royal Earl

Hough, George Washington

astronomer, author, was born Oct. 24, 1836, in Tribes Hill, N. Y. He is an astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn observatory; and the author of Annals of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; and The Galvanic Battery.

Hough, Jacob B

physician, was born June 23, 1829, in Camargo, Pa. In 1875 he became professor of chemistry and toxicology in Miami Medical college, Cincinnati, where he has resided since 1873, working as an analytical and consulting chemist.

Hough, John Stockton

physician, author, was born Dec. 5, 1845, in Yardley, Pa. He was a successful physician and surgeon of Philadelphia, Pa.; and the author of several medical works.

Hough, Warwick

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Loudoun county, Va. He served in the confederate army during the civil war, and for awhile was on the staff of Lieutenant-General Taylor. In 1874 he was elected judge of the supreme court of Missouri for a term of ten years, during the last two years of which he was chief justice of the state.

He is now one of the foremost lawyers of St. Louis, Mo.

Hough, William J

congressman, was born in New York. He served in the assembly of that state in 1835 and 1836; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.

Hough, William R

lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 9, 1833, in Williamsburg, Ind. He served four years as senator, there being two regular and two special sessions of the legislature during his term of office.

Houk, Clyde Stanley

educator, writer, was born Jan. 22, 1873, in New Haven, Ill. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the public schools, he attended the Southern Illinois university, and graduated from that institution in 1893. He then took up educational work; has taught German, French and Spanish; and has attained prominence as a writer for educational papers and magazines.

Houk, John C

congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1860, in Clinton, Tenn. He was elected from Tennessee to the fiftysecond, and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.

House, Edward Howard

journalist, critic, author, was born Sept. 5, 1836, in Boston, Mass. He is a journalist and critic of Boston and New York; long resident in Japan; and the author of The Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; and The Midnight Warning, and Other Stories.

House, Hanna A

poet, was born near Hillsboro, Va. She has attained prominence in the south in the field of literature; is the author of a number of very fine poems, several of which have received a place in standard national collections of poetry.

House, James Alford

inventor, was born April 6, 1838, in New York city.

In 1864 he became the mechanical engineer of the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing company. The button-hole machine made by this corporation was invented by him in 1862, and the buttonhole attachment for their family sewingmachine was patented by him in 1866. He has also invented an india-rubber trunk shield and several sewing-machine improvements.

House, Royal Earl

inventor, was born Sept. 9, 1814, in Rockingham, Vt.

The practicability of the printing-telegraph became manifest to him, and he invented a keyboard, a single line of insulated electric conductors, magnets, type-wheels, automatic platens, and paper-carriers, for several stations, adapted for transmitting and printing messages in Roman characters.